Top 40 Cupboard Quotes

I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, ‘Sorry I’m late.’

‘Dog Days’ was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

My favourite scent… changes every day. I have a cupboard full – so many I can’t begin to tell you.

I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

My mum is your archetypal Asian mum, always feeding people. If there was no food in the cupboard, she’d still manage to rustle up a feast – Bangladeshi food such as pilau rice, curry and korma.

I’ve always loved the scent of rose; it’s just the most beautiful scent. If you open my bathroom cupboard, everything is rose scented.

Many Euro-Asian homes have a cupboard devoted to Chinese ingredients. The smell cannot be contained and it’s my earliest memory. I both object to and love it.

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

The elderly are all someone’s flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

If I were afraid of wrinkles, I’d probably be hiding in a cupboard, because I have a lot of them.

If I have food in the house and I’m laying in bed, I go, ‘I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.’

You can pretty much make anything with a base of tinned tomatoes. If I don’t have tinned tomatoes in my cupboard, I start to panic – it’s a genuine thing.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

Some people put Marmite on all sorts of dishes – I don’t mind dropping a teaspoon into a pot of stew – but it’s something I like to eat at home, on the sofa. I have to stick the jar right at the back of the cupboard or I’ll eat six slices of toast in one go.

I’m just totally into being strong. There’s something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog’s bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There’s comfort in that.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

I need to have dark chocolate in the cupboard – Green & Black’s is good, but any will do.

I’m a hoarder, but then, when it all gets too much, I turn into a ruthless chucker. I’m very good at clearing out and giving stuff away. But I’m equally skilled at shoving things in a cupboard, shutting the door, and calling that ‘cleared up.’

It is possible to do many household cleaning tasks by simply using ingredients from the store cupboard, which are also safer for the environment.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It’s like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I know exactly what it’s like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it’s like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it’s like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I lived for a little while in a place where the kitchen was a cupboard on the landing.

I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.

I have very short arms. I can’t really reach down and pick things off the floor when they fall. I can’t really reach up and get things out of the cupboard.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

I’ve written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children’s feet – and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

What we’ve learned is that if you can make the right decision in the supermarket aisle, it’s a heck of a lot easier to make a good decision when you reach in your cupboard when you’re craving a snack at eight o’clock at night.

I have lots of clothes that I don’t wear because I’m bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven’t worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends’ wardrobes.

My mum has a cupboard in her house, and you have to fight an avalanche of tea whenever you open it. I go through eight teas a day because I like having something in my hands when I’m working, and it stops me going for the cookie jar.

As a kid, there was a painting of ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit’ that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature’s cupboard for their satisfaction.

I have a lot of energy, and if I don’t keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers – it’s scary! My house loves it when I’m working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don’t sit around.

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the ‘no one knows quite what to do with it’ shelf.

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That’s living with a British man for me.